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In statistics, we talk about a “population” as being everyone that could possibly be included in a study, such as everyone who lives in New York City. In contrast, we talk about a “sample” as being a subset of a population, as, for example, all people in New York with a last name beginning with “L”.

By Rosemarie Emanuele

. . . is small and visually unimpressive. At the moment, it's in my living room. On an end table beside my favorite chair. It's table 3.1 in Chapter 3 of Ecological Economics: An Introduction by Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl. (It's written as a college-level textbook. Greenback's library didn't have it, but the Backboro public library did. Go figure.)

By G. Rendell

The Republican Party is concerned about ideological bias. Me too.

By John Warner

EdSurge announced this week that it closed a $400,000 seed funding round led by the Washington Post Co (owners of Kaplan University) and NewSchools Venture Fund.

By Joshua Kim

This shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone reading my blog. But I explain the trauma lying just behind the lack.

By Lee Bessette

It’s been a busy week in Tampa. I have been at my Florida home (instead of preparing for school in Chicago) because I am interested in witnessing the Republican National Convention (RNC) activities.

By Elizabeth Coffman

Hot off the press report -- Measuring Academic Research in Canada: Field-Normalized Academic Rankings 2012.

By Kris Olds

A new television ad from UCLA’s Extension Program ups the ante on advertising for online programs.

By Kenneth C. Green